Friday, January 22, 2010

After the intro, a pleasant enough melange of sounds. First diversion is cut off after two bars and ends up functioning as a closing for the first (post-intro) section. When it comes back at 1:40 after the repeat, these same materials blossom into some kind of bold transcendence.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Whatever genres this song may be said to evoke, it is an instance of bull's-eye compositional archetypicality: the great triumph of musicians managing in precisely that archetypicality to perhaps, in a small but profound way, say something for a whole culture, a whole people.